Sewer Line Replacement
Well we finally came full circle on Change Order #3. You know the one where our contractor tried to double charge us for the sewer replacement. He finally admitted that he had bid the replacement pipe but not the excavation to dig the hole for the sewer. He agreed to knock $150 off the change order for the mistake, I asked him to knock off his entire profit on that item ($620), but I guess I'll take what I can get. And away we go with a big trench for the new sewer line:
In order to install the new sewer line they had to demolish part of our driveway. It's pretty crazy that the thing was only 2.5" thick concrete with no rebar... no wonder the thing was more cracked than dropped smart phone. Plopping about 5 humungous dumpsters on it didn't help that situation any...
Here's a photo from the contractor showing a chunk of the driveway with his tape measure on it. I guess that made it a lot easier to remove. For reference typical driveways are 4-5" thick and have at least #3 rebar or welded wire fabric. But I guess 60 years ago nobody paid attention to this. I gotta admit it makes me a little nervous about our foundation, but with the additions we have nice heavily reinforced areas at each corner holding everything in there.
Here's the old sewer line at the end of the lateral to the street.
Pepper was pretty interested...
Ultimately we got what we wanted = a whole new sewer system!!
Here it is all backfilled. Yay for no huge hole in front of our main entrance anymore! Oh hey is that a Camack on the roof?... I guess he just can't help himself. :-)
Just a little post-softball roof walk... NBD.
